Ahead of the 60th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities of the Korean War on July 27, 1953, the isolated government of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un staged its annual Mass Games in Pyongyang. The event, now a regular draw for foreign photographers, journalists and a handful of tourists, is a Stalinist propaganda fever dream enacted by hundreds of North Korean volunteers.

Other than the placards held up to depict a child in military uniform, this type of performance looks like the type of thing done at South Korean schools and festivals on a regular basis (just on a grander, collective scale. I'd say most of it looks like something that is a Korean dream. Other than the one photo already discussed, the type of photos shown here would be odd in the USA but fit well within the cultural norms of the Korean Peninsula - North and South.